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The hurt caused by such aggression varies too. Should this not be taken into account, or should we never consider the affects our behaviour has on others? Some people are more sensitive. Some people think calling someone a "dense jackass" as a reproach is OK.

Fortunately for me, I'm in a position to choose exactly who I work with. (Unlike perhaps this Sarah is.)

There is a happy medium :) But in general, I'd always choose (true, sincerely meant) pleasantness and kindness over intelligence. Though, if a kernel developer is required, then maybe intelligence is the more useful, giving rise to this current situation...

I agree with your first statement totally, the difference is I would rate Linus' attitude, separate from his language, as unpleasant and unnecessarily aggressive. I don't like aggression in the workplace (or anywhere.) And I think that links into a comment above regarding women; in general women are less aggressive and so feel less at home in this industry. In general, in my opinion, etc, etc.

Hacker News: Where IQ and intelligence trumps being pleasant. So many tech types are assholes.

I don't really see that a new currency is even relevant to solving any "1%" problem. If anything has value, wealthy people will be able to own more of it.

And also, anticipated by Satoshi, was that the long tail of smaller botnets that would be unable to double spend would take to bitcoin mining because it would be more profitable, so increasing security and making it much harder for a single large botnet to take over.

I get a little over a million uniques a month (~4mil pageviews) and earn about $2500 / month from ads.

Think I'm missing an order of magnitude somewhere.

I can see the future: a BBC iPlayer which only supports a few specific web browsers. And the masses will happily "upgrade". All PC manufacturers will ship browsers that support DRM out of the box. (The users want their software to Just Work, after all).

I'm never going to play the "I'm a kid" card, he says - 10 paragraphs after playing it. ("My 17-year-old-brain thought...")

This is great, thought about making something like this myself for a while.

One problem I have with current cookie law, is that it pretty much forces cookies upon those who actually know how to disable them. If someone browses with cookies disabled, they get all these annoying warnings and yet no way to turn them off - because turning them off requires a cookie! Insanity.

And the relevant governing body has pretty much admitted that you'll probably be ok with just a clear description of cookies used. (See the response to nocookielaw.com)

Oh AND all American websites will just continue as they were before, except now with an extra competitive advantage.